Example sentences of "[noun pl] specially [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Hoskyns Group have developed a range of computers specially tailored to the hotel industry . |
| 2 | It was rumoured that he even had his neckties specially made . |
| 3 | Historians have tended to ignore these important developments , which implied the growing need for a small supply of vessels specially built for war ( like heavy artillery , these could only be afforded by the crown ) , the facilities for their maintenance , and the growing appreciation that England 's commercial interests should be defended by ships built for that purpose . |
| 4 | The sculpture , created by Irena Adams and featuring giant bat shapes , was built to demonstrate bricks specially designed to accommodate the furry flying mammals in buildings . |
| 5 | Animals which live permanently underwater have eyes specially adapted to the hues of their aquatic home . |
| 6 | Five thousand stood outside , in the Place d'Armes , listening to the service on speakers specially rigged for the occasion . |
| 7 | But doing the whole thing — removing daytime clothes , putting on special sleeping garments , emptying the bladder , cleaning the teeth and finally getting into the purpose-built sleeping furniture — is something that is only done in the bedrooms specially built for the purpose . |
| 8 | In fact , like the many German towns vying with one another in the Eighties , Nîmes decided on the building before it even had a collection to put into it , and since 1984 it has been buying in three areas with assistance from funds specially designated by the State for regional museums to collect contemporary works : French art from 1960 to 1990 , with the Nouveau Réalisme and Figuration Libre via the Support-Surface movement ; the Mediterranean scene , with art from southern France , Spain and Italy , with Arte Povera and the Transavanguardia , and represented by artists such as Jose Maria Sicilia , Miquel Barcelo , Susanna Solano , Janis Kounellis , Mario Merz , Giuseppe Penone and Enzo Cucchi ; a taste of English and German tendencies , with Richard Long , Hamish Fulton , Gerhard Richter , Imi Knoebel , Helmut Dorner and others . |
| 9 | On the other side , the wine cellar , the bottles specially selected by my importers , otherwise known as the local off-licence . |
| 10 | Fed up constantly repairing his sole pair of shoes specially built 6 years ago , John despaired of finding someone to make him another pair . |
| 11 | Look for suncreams specially formulated for babies and children , and never use a suncream with a factor of less than 12 . |
| 12 | The pair celebrated the news yesterday by parading in the lavish costumes specially designed for them for Dick Whittington at the Empire Theatre . |
| 13 | Most went to organisations such as Dr Barnardo 's , the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Sick Children in Brighton , the Children 's Cancer Unit in Newcastle , and children 's wards in Stevenage , Southampton , Edinburgh , Aberdeen and Oxford , where they are housed on shelves specially made by Smarties . |
| 14 | He concluded by reviewing the sexual properties of portliness , noting that , if you are fat enough , you can develop love-handles specially adapted for oral sex , as well as coitus . |
| 15 | The latter are typically transactions specially structured to meet specific requirements of issuer and investor . |
| 16 | Moreover , it has the advantage of providing data down to the level of the individual enumeration district covering roughly 500 inhabitants , which , even if too small for certain purposes , can be treated as a building block for areas specially defined by the user ( Rhind , 1983 ) . |
| 17 | Tonight and for the following two nights we are privileged to welcome a quintet of American musicians specially brought together for the Guinness Spot in association with Frank Tate . |
| 18 | The clothing and electronics factories have closed down in the Northeast , and the shifts specially designed for mothers , the part-time and twilight , were the first to go . |
| 19 | Your only course of action this April seems to be to avoid any further confrontations and concentrate on professional interests or projects specially designed to exploit your creative abilities , as very shortly after the full Moon in Libra on the 10th there should be a beneficial alteration in your work . |
| 20 | Look out for programmes specially made for young children , like Playdays and See-Saw . |
| 21 | And it should be possible to apply it to any available material , without the need of programmes specially constructed for the purpose . |
| 22 | So Edis , in selecting Sheringham with all its Edwardian houses specially built for summer seasons , its wide sandy beaches , cliff walks , fishing quays and closeness to Sandringham , was part of this pattern . |
| 23 | Distinctive features of ‘ The Land of the Roe ’ include the 24 maps specially drawn by the author for this publication ; the use of primary data from the 1831 Census of Population to complement the detailed social and economic history derived from the Ordnance Memoirs of Ireland 1831–35 ; and the inclusion in the Appendix of all of the original and processed data on which the population maps are based . |
| 24 | Meetings were often held in museums or educational institutions specially built or refurbished to be ready for the great occasion . |
| 25 | The Constitution is therefore not merely a body of rules equally applicable to all citizens , but also a body of rules specially designed to benefit and protect given groups … |
| 26 | Loans to small farmers have been increased 25 times over ; research and investment has gone into new seeds and fertilizers specially designed for the needs ( and the purses ) of the small farmer ; and maize prices have gone up by 129 per cent so as to provide an incentive . |
| 27 | The blame must lie with the fertiliser manufacturers , who undoubtedly have done their best to encourage increased consumption by heavy advertising to farmers , and who in many cases also own farms themselves and supply seed of varieties specially bred to respond to high levels of nitrogen . |
| 28 | Typically , much of this classification , compilation and summary will be carried out on computer packages specially written for market and statistical research purposes . |
| 29 | J. G. Frazer in his monumental work on folklore in the Old Testament maintained that the belief that the gods revealed themselves and declared their will to mankind in dreams was widespread in antiquity ; and accordingly people resorted to temples and other sacred spots for the purpose of sleeping there and holding converse with the higher powers in visions of the night , for they naturally supposed that the deities or the deified spirits of the dead would be most likely to manifest themselves in places specially dedicated to their worship . |
| 30 | Clockwise from left : Mister C sports specially made Shamen T-shirt and pagan symbol pendant ; Houston 's progressive house fans file into the Shamen Hallowe'en ‘ rave ’ at the Tower Theater ; dancer from support band Utah Saints gets into Ebeneezer garb and joins The Shamen on stage for ‘ Ebeneezer Goode ’ |